Rachie Campbell

It’s alway good to appreciate a good ass. The ancient Greeks certainly did. The male nude is unfairly under represented in art (compared to the female nude) BUM exhibition is a lil levelling up. Check out @rachie_campbell sensual collection of bums including playboy stencil art, oil on canvas super butts, spray art and bum prints.


Rachie’s work explores the blurred lines between nudes, sex and societal norms. Her work focuses on ideas of the male form, the female mind and how social and cultural constructs influence both.

Stacey Frazer Allen

Stacey Fraser-Allen is a Wellington-based ink and watercolour artist and creator of Brick and Water Creative.

After completing her degree in business she found a passion for watercolours and paired that with her love of New Zealand architecture. 

Growing up in Wales, amongst estate and terraced houses, she was immediately drawn to New Zealand’s quirky and individualistic buildings and homes. The corrugated iron roofs, timber frames and in-door, out-door flow reflect the kiwi culture she fell in love with. 

She began creating personalised art pieces for whanau and friends and decided to refine the process following interest from other clients.

Since then she has continues to specialise in capturing buildings, drawing attention to the little details and endeavouring to immortalise the memories that they hold. 

Her first solo exhibition was held at Thistle Hall Gallery in February 2022 featuring 28 pieces focusing on and celebrating heritage-listed buildings around Wellington. Some featured works depicted buildings that had been demolished decades ago but were scenes of historical significance and cultural influences in Wellington.  

She went on to participate the the New Zealand Art Show in June 2022, where six new original pieces first focused on Wellingtons iconic streets. 

Her work continues to celebrate New Zealand’s historical architecture and aims to draw people away from their technology and back into the physical.

.STREET.SCAPES. will debut a collection of existing and new limited edition fine art  of iconic buildings from around central Wellington and it’s southern suburbs.

Portals... A Group Exhibition

Ben Klocek

This collection of abstract works explore the common thread that runs through the human experience and into the natural world. With contrasting tones, botanical and native New Zealand plant illustrations, the thread we all share returns to the earth to be reformed again and again.

My journey with mental health almost always finds its way into my art practice, where I predominantly explore expressions of the 'self' and consciousness. Painting and illustration have been my preferred medium throughout the years, and my use of abstraction allows the viewer the opportunity of "tethering" their own journey to each piece.

Conor Dolman

Imposter Photography

Black and White is a series of original Photograms by Imposter Photography.

Photograms, light, matter, photographic paper. And some creative commons images from NASA ;)

Thanks NASA. 

Imposter Photography / Miranda Voke

Serpent Dream

Deadlock:

Built off existing cast glass, photography, found objects and photogram work,

Deadlock is digitally combined and transformed into bold abstract images,

This work is part of an ongoing multimedia project exploring the fragility of

the mind when exposed to traumatic experiences.

Deadlock embodies the emotions of hate, despair grief and helplessness,

how through pain we inflict pain, blindly forming cycles of abuse and

transforming into the monsters that hurt us.

The key, acquired from an infamous and abandoned mental institute in

Goulburn Australia, represents the hidden strength inside to unlock and

transform our painful experiences into healing and growth.

Nova:

A multimedia work meshing electronic music, sound design and audio

manipulation. Combined with a multi-faceted visually psychedelic projection

and static visual art.

"Inspired by travels with friends. It started as an idea to articulate this mantra

we have: to follow our passions. We had been discussing how all-consuming

work, social and cultural norms set us up with feelings of self-doubt,

neurosis, and for many, deep feelings of depression and anxiety."

Using sampled audio of these conversations I formed a narrative, a thread of

individual experience and perspective that articulates the innate urge inside

us to create and explore within our world."

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Bio:

Serpent Dream is the moniker of multimedia artist James Costin.

His work consists of electro-acoustic music and introspective soundscapes.

His music is accompanied by visual art, this medium takes the same path as

the music in which elements are borrowed and transformed into new forms

that embody his personal experience in life.

"Music and art are direct connections to the more abstract part of my being,

a bridge to that raw humanness that lies behind all concept and logic"

www.serpentdream.com - @serpent.dream

Vee Hoy

Anthropology –

The science dealing with the origins, physical and cultural development, biological

characteristics, and social customs and beliefs of humankind.

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Artists Bio

V is a multi disciplinary creative, specialising in digital and large scale surrealist imagery.  

Published in VICE in 2018, her work largely discusses the construction of identity and how society impacts that.  Often touching on subjects around mental health and the connectedness of human beings. 

Her works seeks to act as an anthropological study of humankind through imagery.  

"Art has an amazing ability to convey a message across cultures, race, social economic groups... it speaks without words and unites like nothing else can" 

V has worked with the New Zealand Police and other organisations such as Woman's Refuge, presenting on education around Mental Health Awareness and Family Harm Reduction. 

The last year has seen her speak at Pecha Kucha, whilst also working with multiple councils painting murals and teaching a course at Hastings Girls High School.  She was a featured artist in the Auckland Festival of Photography, painted the festival circuit, and has showcased her work nationally at places such as Tairawhiti Museum in Gisborne. 

Kelly Todd

“I’m an explorer. Propelled by the belief that the more we understand ourselves, the more we understand the world around us.

I see the world is built up by an ongoing chain of often discreet and abstract events and I delight to explore the inner and outer worlds of our very own human existence and work out what is happening. 

By exploring science, psychology, poetry, music and art, I use my skills in photography, writing, poetry and music to weave this information and the coincidences around me together.”

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Kelly grew up in the north of the UK. In particular Manchester. She mostly disappointed her mother when she proclaimed she wanted to be a starving artist from a very young age.

She  has a BA (hons) degree in photography, wrote her dissertation on Truth, Representation and Propaganda in Photography, and was a professional photographer for 13 years.

Desiring to step away from a commercial use of her photography skills, and because its preferable not to be starving, she now works as a Studio and Events Manager for the amazing web design agency and community of Springload. 

She is also a member of the Wellington based band Strange Things.

Mumu Moore

HIS NAME WAS/IS THE THUNDERBOLT

For this solo exhibition Mumu Moore has created 28 purerehua and porotiti (Taonga Pūoro, Māori instruments) during the maraMATAKA Starting on whiro the new moon and running past Rakaunui the full moon and back down the shadows to whiro the new moon.

Alongside this mumu created the painted art piece this exhibition was named after “His name was/is the thunderbolt. working with similar shapes and patterns found on the taonga around the room, mumu expresses the connection between thunderbolt and papa the earth mother, always working together to create a place the holds all beings found between the earthmother and skyfather.

Mumu creates this taonga with love, adoration, mauri, and sits with the energy of each moon phase, each taonga is named aftetr the coresponding moon phase.

Pūrerehua - is an instrument used for karakia (prayer, incantations), to connect from Papatūānuku (earth mother) to the Ngā Atua (many gods) that live/reside above the earth. They can be used to invoke rain, and for spiritual practices. They can be worn on the body as a pendant.

Porotiti - is a smaller instrument that is used for Rongoā Māori (Māori healing), its is played with two hands, and spins on itself to create a humming noise. which vibrates through the cord to help with arthritis and also used to release the sinus’s and ease pain in the body. They can be worn on the body as pendant.

Ko Mauo te Maunga, ko Tauranga te Moana, ko Ngai Tukairangi te Hapu, ko Te Rangihouhiri te Rangatira, ko Ngai te Rangi te Iwi, ko Mumu Moore ahau.

Mumu Moore is a Wellington artist and film maker. He uses storytelling and cultural practice to create dynamic and emotional films, and artworks that help him to connect to his whakapapa, his way of living, and his higher connection to the atua (gods) that surround us all.

Mumu works within the digital world, combining his love of film, photography and video editing to make poetic films. While also working with rakau (wood) to create Taonga Pūoro (maori musical instruments) mainly pūrerehua (bull roarers).

His passion for storytelling comes from the connections he makes in the community where he lives, works, and plays. Mumu believes that the world needs more stories to help balance the material and spiritual worlds.

This balance will bring about positive social, environmental, physical, and spiritual change in the communities we live in.

Nacho

My name is Liam aka Nacho McCartan. Nacho because its my favourite food (I only eat a singular chip), and Liam because my mother was a massive fan of Liam Neilsen who is rumoured to be my real father.

I would describe myself as an award winning breakdancer, erotic novelist and pop art enthusiast.

When I am not water skiing in Monte Carlo, or sky diving sans pants, I can be found drawing tasteless nudes and cartoon characters. I am particularly drawn to the cartoons of yesteryear, which were equal parts gratuitous violence and comedy. Where the antagonist never won, and there was a very clear line of who was inherently good and who was bad (you know it sha’more).

Also the colour and style of these cartoons belong to a certain era. An era where aggression was seamlessly infused with comedy, and marinated in a rich gravy of technicolour. These days cartoons are mostly focused on banal activities like dogs who can put out fires, and pigs that can fly helicopters, there is nothing remotely offensive in them. They are a PC wet dream, they are also incredibly yawn inducing.

No more being blown up with dynamite or tied to train tracks, being kicked in the face or being poisoned. Not like the good old days. These drawings are a shout out to the characters I loved, who made me laugh and hold my breath in suspense. Those characters I also routinely masturbated too.

Please enjoy these works, because I would like to retire after this exhibition and return to my golden shack in the woods where I can go back to blowing up innocent wildlife, wrestling bears and fishing topless like Vladimir Putin.

A portion of each sale will be donated to the “Liam Neilson Pie Museum” a cause I am dedicated too.

Greg Davies

Greg from Retro Art loves recycling and upcycling. He is into art and mid-century design. Having spent so many years in the corporate world, it was time for a complete change and unleash his creative side. Greg lives in Hataitai and loves Wellington’s creative vibe.

Having seen so many good picture frames going to landfill or being discarded, just because the art was fading or ugly, Greg saw an opportunity to restore and add colourful art to rejuvinate them. Matching period pictures, original or adapted art to the reconditioned frames, he uses the old frame as much as possible along with new nails, fastenings, backings and tape. The result is a bright, modern piece of art that suits many decors from mid-century to modern.

Mirella Moschella

Ben Klocek + Antoinette Ratcliffe

Taxidermy and photography both exist as a state of preservation of the subject, denying organic decay in a disjointed modernity, a concept that Ben Klocek and Antoinette Ratcliffe emulate in their show Cellar Door.

Crepuscular and discarded, the specimens in their photographs take on new flesh in composition, and in their sentience.

Antoinette’s practice explores the anthropomorphic through her use of a variety of media, including her own taxidermy, where the animals find themselves in relationships created out of circumstance. This photographic series examines the chronotope allegory between taxidermy and the captured image.

Exploring the connection between the physical and the subconscious, Ben constructs situational realities between taxidermy, found spaces and objects. In his use of vibrant and sometimes conflicting colour palettes, Ben creates limbic resonance between the subject, the artist and the viewer.

@AntoinetteRatcliffe

thesickbay.com

@klocek.ben

@Ben Klocek Illustration

Mitzi Henderson

Mitzi Henderson creates epic, colourful collages by hand and in powerpoint. Displaying epic scenes and battles often involving strange combinations of characters and almost always involving lazer beams, Mitzi’s work is light-hearted, bizarre and full of absurdist other- worldly comic dream-scapes.

@mitziwithaneye

Dirt Child Design

‘Frames of Mind is one part of an ongoing investigation into the feelings surrounding experiences of sexual abuse.

Glass magnolia blossoms are used to sketch ideas of a purity that’s been interrupted by sexual assault, as well as a seething rage that blooms from continued and repetitive experiences of trauma.

Each series explores a different way of dispersing these emotions, whether it be through transforming symbolic objects through shattering acts of violence, letting the feelings consume themselves, or allowing them to dissipate to a place where they might create something more beautiful. ‘

Artist Bio:

Dirt Child Design is a bespoke glass studio owned and operated by Kelda Morris, an internationally award-winning glass artist.

A born and bred Wellingtonian, she spent seven years living and studying in Canberra, Australia, where she fell in love with the landscape whilst working towards her BA(Hons) at the Australian National University. Currently she spends most of her time casting glass, designing jewellery, and teaching in her private studio at Nautilus Creative Space, an artist-led not-for-profit community in an old mechanic’s shed on the wild South Coast of Te Whanganui-a-Tara.

“Glass is a tool with which I capture and sculpt light.
I am particularly curious about the relationships between the natural world and our sense of belonging and identity, as well as the reflective nature of the pathways of landscape and the pathways of our minds. “

@dirtchilddesign

www.dirtchilddesign.com

Mary Guo

“Wellington has a fantastic coffee culture. I enjoy sitting in coffee shops, where I can draw and observe people passing by. These are great places to relax, meet friends, and connect with others. For me, this is where my stories begin.”

About:

Hi, I’m Mary! I was born and raised in China and moved to Wellington, New Zealand 7 years ago. I’ve been working in the game and animation industry for over a decade. I’m currently working in animation for children’s television as a visual development artist. In my spare time, I work on various illustration and graphic novel projects.

@totoruoguo

www.maryguo.com

Celia Kent

When I'm lost in train station mazes, I lose not only where I'm going and how to get there but a little of myself. This exhibition showcases ink on paper and tape on wall is inspired by:

Cuadrados y ángulos 
By Alfonsina Storni

Casas enfiladas, casas enfiladas,
casas enfiladas.
Cuadrados, cuadrados, cuadrados.
Casas enfiladas.
Las gentes ya tienen el alma cuadrada,
ideas enfila
y ángulo en la espalda.
Yo misma he vertido ayer una lágrima,
Dios mio, cuadrada.

Squares and angles
Translated by Willis Knapp Jones

Houses in a line, in a line,
in a line there.
Squares, squares, squares.
Houses in a line.
Even people now have square souls,
Ideas in file, I declare,
And on their shoulders, angles wear.
Just yesterday I shed a tear and it
Oh, God, was square!

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NEVERMAN

New space age painting exhibition by Adam Neverman.
On a sizemic scale you can almost jump into these moons. Acrylics and mixed media.

Mumu Moore

ONE is the Māori word for soil/mud/earth. The place where life when touched by wai (water) is created. 

For this solo exhibition Mumu (Will) Moore has created 28 purerehua and porotiti (Taonga Pūoro, Māori instruments).

Purerehua - is an instrument used for karakia (prayer, incantations), to connect from Papatūānuku (earth mother) to the Ngā Atua (many gods) that live/reside above the earth. They can be used to invoke rain, for spiritual practices. They can be worn on the body as a pendant. 

Porotiti - is a smaller instrument that is used for Rongoā Māori (Māori healing), its is played with two hands, and spins on itself to create a humming noise which vibrates through the cord to help with arthritis and also used to release the sinus’s and ease pain in the body.  They can be worn on the body as  pendant. 

The theme for this solo exhibition comes from the idea of the creation of life forms, in this case Mumu is working with rakau (trees), or more so the timber from these native Aotearoa (NZ) giants. The timber has been (koha) gifted by Todd O’Hagen from “fox and timber” a timber recycler here in Wellington, then shaped, sanded, carved and painted. The mauri of the maker (Mumu), the location where it is carved, and the rakau (timber) itself combine to create a unique mauri that is infused into the instrument. 

In this collection 28 pieces are being created throughout Matariki (Māori new years) with 4 elements and 7 per element. The four elements are Wai (water), One (earth), Āngi (air), Ahi (fire). 

Each element has 7 children. The children are created in locations around Te Whanganui a Tara (Wellington), and then given the Māori name for each location. 

I have been lucky enough to get my guidance on the original Māori place names for Wellington from my good friend Ben Ngaia. 

Purerehua and Porotiti range in prices from $160 - $350 depending on type of rakau (wood) and time to make each one.